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The following games all involve wordplay:

 Animal riddles (1) and Animal riddles (2): Match the questions to the answers.

 Chicken and frog joke: Sort the lines of the joke into the correct order.

 Christmas jokes: Match the questions to the answers.

 Compound noun chain: A compound noun is formed by adding one noun to another noun, e.g. room + service = room service. In a compound noun chain you keep adding more nouns, e.g. service + station = service station, until you get back to the beginning.

 Firing-squad joke: Sort the lines of the joke into the correct order.

 Hidden jobs: Discover the names of 9 jobs hidden in the words of sentences that describe those jobs.

 Hidden lands: Discover the names of 14 countries hidden in the words of sentences that describe those countries.

 Homonyms (1) and Homonyms (2): The word homonym comes from the Latin homonymum, meaning "having the same name". They are words that are identical in sound and spelling but different in meaning. Put the homonyms into the blanks in sentences.

 Homophones (1) and Homophones (2) and Homophones (3) and Homophones (4): Homophones are words which have the same sound but different spellings. Match the homophones to pictures.

 Medical services puns: A pun is an amusing use of a word or phrase which has several meanings or which sounds like another word  Match the beginnings and ends of sentences to make puns.

 Oxymorons: Oxymorons are two words used together which have, or seem to have, opposite meanings. Put words together to make oxymorons.

 Palindromes jigsaw puzzle: Palindromes are words or phrases that read the same forwards and backwards.Complet the puzzle to reveal palindromes.

 Parrot joke: Sort the lines of the joke into the correct order.

 Secret message: Complete the blanks in the message which is written in secret code.

 Silly books (1) and Silly books (2) and Silly books (3) and Silly books (4): Match imaginary book titles to their authors.

 Word ladder: Change one word to another through a series of one letter changes.

 Word wangling: Play with words in 8 different ways.

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